Nice Bambi's, Mitch It is gettin' crowded!
I may have laid down on the job with the TC-17E II in tow...may.
Kindly note da frost on the backs of those grazing. Started a D700 thread
but thought these need to be showin' my 300 'love' as well. Shoot me!
Yeah, handheld & SOOC

Will, I received my new 300 f4 today. It's still seems pretty heavy and unsteady hand held. I am taking it out tomorrow. Most of your shots with it seem to be > 1/1000s. Do you have a rule of thumb for minimum shutter speed with, and without the 1.7 TC?

I have read that some keep a TC on the 300 f4 all the time since there is no rear element. Is there any other way than a rear cap or TC to keep dust out of the lens? I forsee using the 300 f4 a lot without the TC. I guess I should just keep it on a body?

Red Rover wrote:
Will, I received my new 300 f4 today. It's still seems pretty heavy and unsteady hand held. I am taking it out tomorrow. Most of your shots with it seem to be > 1/1000s. Do you have a rule of thumb for minimum shutter speed with, and without the 1.7 TC?
I've done well down to 1X FL on FX with the 300 (naked) With TC's I try and go 3X FL or more, while
keeping aperture at the sweet spot and ISO as low as I can. It gets lighter with use (at least it feels that
way after shootin' the 200 f2/TC-20E III all day handheld)

trenchmonkey wrote:
Check this out...old D700 grab from this mornin' (went for frame rate over D800's IQ)
'monkey got down and dirty...heavy crop SOOC KirkB wrote:
One of your finest Will... fantastic capture.
This one along with the other two need to be posted over at N&W.
Great stuff man.

*4X4 as close as I can get to the Rio Grande...Check
*Hike in to where I saw some eagles last week...Check
Forgot TC-17E II..."you stupid moron, 'monkey"
*D800 in DX mode with the now naked 300 f4...Check